Quotes About Martyrs

There are some situations where the police need to have adequate resources on hand in order to be able to go into a situation safely. Their job is to enforce the law, not be martyrs.

siblings Scholl died as courageous and upright martyrs. Report of an eyewitness.

Ya para agosto, las brigadas paramilitares derechistas bloqueaban el tráfico con barricadas ardientes y protagonizaban batallas campales con grupos de jóvenes izquierdistas en el centro de Santiago, mientras grupos estudiantiles de democratacristianos buscaban mártires en enfrentamientos con la policía durante manifestaciones contra políticas educacionales juzgadas perjudiciales para las escuelas privadas.

Every church, yea, every truth and every good cause, has its martyrs, who stood the fiery trial and sacrificed comfort and life itself to their sacred convictions. The blood of martyrs is the seed of toleration; toleration is the seed of liberty; and liberty is the most precious gift of God to every man who has been made in his image and redeemed by Christ.

Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs.

Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.

And, capable, created in his mind,Eventual victor, out of the martyrs' bonesThe ultimate elegance: the imagined land.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief.

Martyrs-in-waiting would be radicalized in hidden corners of the dark Web and then guided toward their targets by masterminds they had never met. Such was the brave new world that the Internet, social media, and encrypted messaging had brought about.

Blood of the Martyrs The quotations on the facing page present two opposing viewpoints, both by Catholics. Only one is right. We learn the truth from John's vision and from history. The woman astride the beast is "drunken with the blood of the

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

Heroes become traitors, traitors become martyrs.

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Working men's Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart of the working class. Its exterminators history has already nailed to that eternal pillory from which all the prayers of their priest will not avail to redeem them.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

For to articulate sweet sounds togetherIs to work harder than all these, and yetBe thought an idler by the noisy setOf bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymenThe martyrs call the world.

The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

The relics of the saints and rotten bones of the martyrs form a great part of the wealth of the Church. The grossest impostures have been practised in regard to such relics; and the most drivelling tales have been told of their wonder-working powers, and that too by Fathers of high name in the records of Christendom.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.